And so it begins...

Well, it's finally here. Hockey season. After a long summer, the Penguins are not only back to playing, but are opening up the brand new Consol Energy Center with a game against their biggest rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers.

No word on the official roster as of yet, which likely will not be announced until this afternoon, but we do know a few things.

• Forward Jordan Staal is still out indefinitely with a lingering foot injury/infection from the playoff series against the Montreal Canadiens.
• Forward Arron Asham is day-to-day, but missed the last several preseason games, and may possibly not play the opener.
• Penguins prospect Eric Tangradi was sent to the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL last night, but was recalled to Pittsburgh early this morning, most likely he will be in if Asham can not play tonight.

It will definitely be interesting to see what the line up looks like tonight, but nothing will be able to change the anticipation surrounding this game.
First game of the season.
First regular season game in a long-awaited (and much needed) new arena.
A game against the Flyers.

So, not matter what the outcome of tonight's game is, it is guaranteed to be memorable.

It is truly, a great day for hockey.

Pens Lose... :(

The Pens struck first blood by Cooke scoring a garbage goal, but they couldn't hang on. Ever since Feds took an early penalty after Cookie's goal. The refs weren't giving us anything and it effected the entire game for us. Game ended up 1-3 Habs. Series tied 2-2.





The whole loss can't be put on the shoulders of losing J Staal, but i'm sure it had something to do with it. Since Sid and Geno weren't producing Staal would have been a big help. The 3rd line though looked pretty good today. TK was everywhere! Definitly missed him! Let's hope our team decides to pick it up in the Bell Center to win game 3!



PS: Didn't actually watch game 2...but Chels is working on a paper so I had do this post. Wish her good luck on her paper!

Let's go Pens!

Rowdy Pulls it off

Alright,  quick NASCAR update.

Nationwide Series raced on Friday night. Keselowski won. No one cares.

Cup raced a few hours ago. Kyle Busch dominated for much of the race, the only other car who even looked close to him was that of Jeff Gordon, who led the 2nd most laps.

It looked as though Gordon was on his way to winning, until a restart near the end of the race. Busch did what he does best, beat people off the restart. He then cruised to victory, his 1st of the season, & 2nd straight at Richmond.
Results:

FIN	ST	CAR	DRIVER	MAKE	SPONSOR	PTS/BNS	LAPS	STATUS
1	1	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	M&M's	195/10	400	Running
2	4	24	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet	DuPont	175/5	400	Running
3	7	29	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet	Reese's	170/5	400	Running
4	17	31	Jeff Burton	Chevrolet	Caterpillar	165/5	400	Running
5	28	99	Carl Edwards	Ford	Scotts EZ Seed	160/5	400	Running
6	19	42	Juan Montoya	Chevrolet	Target	150/0	400	Running
7	26	56	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota	NAPA Auto Parts	151/5	400	Running
8	5	39	Ryan Newman	Chevrolet	U.S. Army Medicine	147/5	400	Running
9	20	47	Marcos Ambrose	Toyota	Bush's Best Baked Beans / Kingsford	138/0	400	Running
10	3	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	Lowe's / Kobalt Tools	134/0	400	Running
11	30	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	FedEx Ground	130/0	400	Running
12	10	33	Clint Bowyer	Chevrolet	BB&T	127/0	400	Running
13	21	17	Matt Kenseth	Ford	Crown Royal	124/0	400	Running
14	6	12	Brad Keselowski	Dodge	Dodge Motorsports	121/0	400	Running
15	2	00	David Reutimann	Toyota	Aaron's Dream Machine	118/0	400	Running
16	23	20	Joey Logano	Toyota	The Home Depot	115/0	400	Running
17	15	43	A.J. Allmendinger	Ford	Valvoline	112/0	400	Running
18	16	2	Kurt Busch	Dodge	Miller Lite	109/0	400	Running
19	8	1	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet	Bass Pro Shops / Tracker	106/0	399	Running
20	9	83	Brian Vickers	Toyota	Red Bull	103/0	399	Running
21	22	9	Kasey Kahne	Ford	Budweiser 25th Anniversary	100/0	399	Running
22	33	16	Greg Biffle	Ford	3M	97/0	399	Running
23	18	14	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet	Office Depot / Old Spice	99/5	399	Running
24	35	6	David Ragan	Ford	UPS	91/0	399	Running
25	14	5	Mark Martin	Chevrolet	HendrickCars.com / GoDaddy.com	88/0	399	Running
26	13	36	Casey Mears	Chevrolet	H.D. Segur, Inc. Insurance	85/0	399	Running
27	32	98	Paul Menard	Ford	Schrock Cabinetry / Menards	82/0	398	Running
28	37	7	Robby Gordon	Toyota	BAMVIP.com / James Otto - Whitney Duncan	79/0	398	Running
29	39	26	David Stremme	Ford	Air National Guard	76/0	398	Running
30	29	78	Regan Smith	Chevrolet	Furniture Row Companies	73/0	398	Running
31	40	37	David Gilliland	Ford	Taco Bell	70/0	398	Running
32	25	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Chevrolet	National Guard / Amp Energy	67/0	397	Running
33	31	71	Bobby Labonte	Chevrolet	TRG Motorsports	64/0	397	Running
34	38	34	Travis Kvapil	Ford	Long John Silver's	61/0	396	Running
35	12	82	Scott Speed	Toyota	Red Bull	58/0	393	Running
36	27	77	Sam Hornish Jr.	Dodge	Mobil 1	55/0	387	Accident
37	42	38	Kevin Conway *	Ford	Extenze	52/0	387	Running
38	24	19	Elliott Sadler	Ford	Reynolds Wrap	49/0	385	Running
39	41	46	Terry Cook *	Dodge	The Atlantic Company of America	46/0	92	Rear Gear
40	36	09	Mike Bliss	Chevrolet	Phoenix Construction / GracewayPharm- aceuticals	43/0	86	Brakes
41	34	132	Reed Sorenson	Toyota	Braun Racing	40/0	80	Overheating
42	43	164	Tony Raines	Toyota	Gunselman Motorsports	37/0	69	Vibration
43	11	87	Joe Nemechek	Toyota	FrontRowJoe.com	34/0	42	Accident